Evelyn Waugh

''Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining'' John Banville
''Excellent ... read this book'' Literary Review
''The best single-volume life of the author available'' Irish Times

The much mythologised author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited was hailed by Graham Greene as ''the greatest novelist of my generation'', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by ...